Visible Threat by Cantore Janice

Author:Cantore, Janice [Cantore, Janice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Christian / Romance
ISBN: 9781414384535
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2014-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

36

MAGDA HAD BEEN so preoccupied with the police, she’d forgotten that Anton planned to meet her for lunch that afternoon. The time was 12:30 on her watch, and she was halfway back from the end of the marina walkway when she remembered. Bringing a hand to her mouth, she uttered a frustrated grunt and stepped up her pace. Anton would arrive at the shop at one, and Magda had to freshen up so he wouldn’t know she’d been crying. For a brief moment she wondered if the wisest course of action would be to tell Anton everything and enlist his help. But he knew nothing about Demitri and the loan—nothing.

As much as she wanted—no, needed—her husband’s support in most aspects of her life, fear that Anton would despise her for taking Demitri’s help had kept her quiet about the alliance all the years she had known Anton.

She’d met her husband in Varna, where her first shop flourished. He wasn’t Bulgarian; he was Albanian. Retired from the army after losing his left leg to a land mine, he’d come to the seaside village of Varna to recuperate. He was hurt and alone, and that appealed to Magda. Their relationship blossomed to love quickly.

Now he spent his time caring for their children while Magda supported the family. The arrangement worked perfectly for both of them. Anton was a pillar of strength in the home for Magda. She couldn’t bear to disappoint him and tell him that he was beaten and humiliated and their children endangered because of a choice she’d made so many years ago.

I’ve put our family’s very existence in peril and have stood by and watched as Demitri brutalized other people’s children. The despair rose so thick in her throat, Magda nearly choked. Swallowing the tightness, she fought for control, fingernails digging into her palms. The crying must stop, and I must be composed before Anton arrives.

Slowly she felt a calm smoothing over the panic and guilt. Anton did that for her. Because of his very presence, she could believe that everything bad would, ultimately, be all right.

And then she reached the shop, only to see a man waiting for her at the door. But it wasn’t Anton. It was Simon.

Here was the source of her angst, at her doorstep, much too close to the time Anton would arrive. Magda nearly screamed, the sight too much to bear just now. Panic jolted her as she knew she could never explain Simon if Anton arrived early. She must get rid of him. Fast.

“I have called and called. Why haven’t you answered?” Simon demanded, striding toward her.

“I haven’t had the time,” she hissed, motioning him away from the front of the shop. “What are you doing here?”

“I need to know what the police wanted.” He gripped Magda’s shoulders, and she saw the fear in his eyes. “Time is running out. You must help me.”

Magda ripped away from his grip. “I’m trying to help. But you can’t haunt my shop like this. You have to give me an opportunity to think of a solution to this problem.

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